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...years ago. Her mother Sakie thought she would never know where her 13-year-old daughter had gone, until she read a series of articles in a newspaper three years later suggesting that North Korean agents were snatching Japanese citizens off the streets and whisking them to their motherland. Sakie's suspicion turned into conviction when a North Korean defector to South Korea told officials he had seen Megumi in Pyongyang on five occasions...
...years ago. Her mother Sakie thought she would never know where her 13-year-old daughter had gone, until she read a series of articles in a newspaper three years later suggesting that North Korean agents were snatching Japanese citizens off the streets and whisking them to their motherland. Sakie's suspicion turned into conviction when a North Korean defector to South Korea told officials he had seen Megumi in Pyongyang on five occasions...
...seats in parliament. While Cem would clearly like to succeed Ecevit, other parties also are interested in - and perhaps capable of - helping to shape a government. Apart from what's left of the D.S.P., they include its right-wing coalition partners, the Nationalist Action Party and the Motherland Party. On the opposition side are the center-right True Path Party and Justice and Development, led by former Istanbul Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdogan and suspected by the military of having a worrying Islamist agenda. With Turkey in such a political and economic mess, and its stability resting on the NATO...
...hotbed of Islamic extremism. As for Megawati, she won her presidency last year with military backing, and former TNI officers hold key posts in her Cabinet. Because she stresses the country's unity above all else (she has spoken of "the need for a force to protect our motherland from breaking up"), Megawati has placed on the back burner anything that might upset the TNI, the nation's guardian?like extracting it from politics and business and making it adhere strictly to human rights. "Reform is not solely the TNI's responsibility," says military analyst Kusnanto Anggoro. "Civilians, too, must...
...empire leaves many orphans. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled after World War I, one third of Central Europe's ethnic Hungarians were cut off from the motherland. Later, under communist rule, their ethnic and national identities were actively suppressed. Now the Hungarian government is offering a belated homecoming to the 3.5 million ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries with a new "status law" that came into force last month. The legislation extends generous benefits to people of Hungarian descent in the region - ranging from stipends for Hungarian-language schooling to subsidized travel and facilitated work permits...